Hanging out with Nicky, Dan and the little dude…
The all American washing machine!
Spending our Saturday afternoon testing out beds inside Sears - that's just how we roll
Big plates of yummy Vietnamese food
Plus this awesome cream puff
Play time with the little dude
Too cool
Scenes from our Saturday visit in Seattle…
Arrived to the Everett train station at 9:40, just on time for our 9:52am departure on the Amtrak Cascades.
However, a few minutes beforehand I received the first text notification that the train would be delayed until 11:06am.
Second text notification delayed until 11:26am.
Actual time of departure: 11:43am, almost two hours of waiting. Instead of arriving in Portland at 3:05, now this was looking closer to 5:00pm…
Arriving into Everett... delayed due to snow!
Waiting inside King Street Station.. Amtrak decided to halt our train in Seattle and continue it as a different train number, departing at 2:10pm.
For Portland bound passengers inconvenienced by this new time schedule (arriving around 6pm), Amtrak offered an alternative... this bus, which they said would leave around 1pm and get us into Portland by 4pm
But the bus didn't leave until 1:30pm, and then we got the snow
The snow was slushy so it was slow going
It was heaviest around Centralia, when the road was reduced to one lane.
After almost 8 hours on transit, we finally made it to Portland by 5pm
Scenes on board the train…
We really liked our seats... Big window, generous legroom, comfy seat and right in front of the luggage rack for easy access to our bags
Business class, featuring more legroom and complimentary drinks. On this train, our regular coach seats were similar and at the cheaper ticket price
Bistro menu
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
As a bonus for getting the Amtrak Mastercard credit card, we received a buy one, get one free round trip coupon that we used for this weekend trip to visit our friends Dan and Nicky in Everett. But first, we had to get there despite the icy streets…
Obligatory selfie in front of Union Station
We got a ride to the Elmonica MAX station and rode the MAX downtown; we just needed to survive the one block walk on some slick sidewalks
Lisa beelines to the warmth for her hands
Lining up for boarding